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Syrian ibises fledge; Morocco’s ibis wardens need your support

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Northern Bald Ibis is being tracked from Syria through the Arabian peninsula whilst in Morocco wardens are needed to protect the breeding sites

BirdLife Species Champions strike gold in Chukotka

Saturday, July 9, 2011

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BirdLife Species Champions strike gold in Chukotka

Heritage Expeditions - a BirdLife Species Champion supporting Spoon-billed Sandpiper - struck gold this week when they, and the passengers they have taken to the Russian Far East, helped discover a previously unknown breeding population of these rapidly declining waders.

Saving Spoon-billed Sandpiper

Friday, June 24, 2011

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An international team of conservationists is on an emergency mission to help save one of the world’s rarest birds from extinction.

Big birds lose out in a crowded world

Monday, June 6, 2011

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One of the world’s largest species of bird is on the brink of extinction according to the 2011 IUCN Red List for birds.

First signs of progress in saving Indian vultures from killer drug

Thursday, May 12, 2011

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The ban on a veterinary drug which caused an unprecedented decline in Asian vulture populations has shown the first signs of progress, according to scientists.

Spoony wins hearts and votes from Disney’s Friends for Change

Thursday, March 24, 2011

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‘Saving Spoony’s Chinese Wetlands’, BirdLife’s project to save two key resting and feeding sites used by Critically Endangered Spoon-billed Sandpipers in China, has been selected to receive a $100,000 grant by The Walt Disney Company, through Disney’s Friends for Change.

Rare species benefit from fund for threatened birds

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

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Rare species benefit from fund for threatened birds

The Birdfair/RSPB Research Fund for Endangered Birds has announced its latest round of grants with some of the world’s most threatened birds benefiting.

Spoon-billed Sandpiper podcast

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

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In this podcast Charlie Moores from www.talking-naturally.co.uk talks with Jim Lawrence, Manager of BirdLife International’s Preventing Extinctions Programme, Chris Collins, a highly-experienced Leader with Heritage Expeditions, and Dr Zockler about Spoon-billed Sandpiper conservation.

Ace navigator Erzhan emerges in Sudan for a fourth consecutive winter

Thursday, January 27, 2011

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Ace navigator Erzhan emerges in Sudan for a fourth consecutive winter

After an absence of any firm location data since early October, Erzhan - our most experienced traveller - has just popped up on our radar again. For the fourth year running we can confirm he is now back in a wintering flock in Sudan.

Winners of The World’s Rarest Birds announced

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

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Winners of The World’s Rarest Birds announced

The winners of The World’s Rarest Birds international photo competition have just been announced. The competition, launched in 2010, aimed to secure images of the 566 most threatened birds on Earth for a new book highlighting their plight.

Saving Asia’s Threatened Birds: A Guide for Government and Civil Society

Monday, January 10, 2011

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256 pages, £19, Available to buy. This book documents the major forest, grassland and wetland regions of Asia and the globally threatened bird species which they support.

Rubber plantations are erasing Thailand’s lowland forest

Friday, July 23, 2010

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Rubber plantations are erasing Thailand’s lowland forest

“Rubber plantations are like a creeping cancer for biodiversity-a sterile green blanket that holds almost no food for either insectivorous or fruit-eating birds. Expansion of rubber plantations will further exacerbate the ongoing decline in wild bird populations”

New population of Grey-breasted Parakeet discovered in rocky outcrops in Quixadá, Ceará, in northeastern Brazil

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

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A new population of the Critically Endangered Grey-breasted Parakeet (Pyrrhura griseipectus) has been found nesting in atypical habitat in the “table mountains” of Quixada, Ceará, northeastern Brazil.